Kacie handles serious photography with her Nikon DSLR - Nicole has a nice camera too, and I have a serviceable point-and-shoot, but mostly Nicole and I juggle real-camera pics with our iPhones so we have blog-ready pics. When we get access to a good computer, Kacie will get the opportunity to share her great photos.
Then it's off to the Blogger app, where we compose and edit. It's made sharing our trip extremely easy, so we're happy with what tech can do for us.
Kacie in a photographer's stance on Karimunjawa.
Our week away in Karimunjawa gave us a week of radio silence that was surprisingly easier than we had expected. While we like being able to stay close to family and friends, it's nice to find somewhere you can truly be away, in all senses of the word.
Now that we're in Bali, though, there's so much to share that I would feel guilty keeping it all to myself. We've been thinking a lot about Elizabeth Gilbert's (of Eat, Pray, Love) travels through Bali. If you're unfamiliar with her story, she visits Italy and India first for the eating and the praying. I've realized that she could have skipped both: there is so much excellent food and so many opportunities for reflection here that a year of just Bali could make you an extremely well-fed, balanced, and happy person.
Some of the things that make us happy here are below:
Fire-orange marigolds on our lunch table.
Local microbrews.
A new friend on the homestay compound's entry wall.
An offering to appease evil spirits that live in the ground on the corner of our porch.
Amazing rooftops.
The entryway to a Balinese family's communal compound and temples.
We've been living large but on-budget, and we couldn't be happier to be ending out time in Indonesia in such a beautiful, friendly place.
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